FROM THE ATBARA TO WAD HAMED 99> running down to the sea. One threw oneself flat upon the bank and drank, and drank, and drank! Hunger is much more easily endured than thirst, and Aéschylus did well to class amongst the most joyful of human experiences the sight of running water to a thirsty traveller— d8ourdpp Swpavre mryatoy péos.

At the same time, indiscriminate drinking is a tiresome habit, which can be shaken off with a little practice and determination. The inexperienced traveller in the East always carries a huge water-bottle, from which he is continually drinking copious draughts ; but after a few months he learns to drink at meal times, and not to encumber himself with his waterbottle on every occasion when he is away from the tent. Education and self-control go largely hand in hand. Officers stand hunger and thirst much better than the rank and file, who, in the Sudan, exercised very little self-control in the matter of drink. Whenever they could get it, the soldiers were perpetually dipping their tin mugs in the large ‘‘zias” or ‘“fantasias” provided for their use.

Just before the evening shadows cooled the